********Motors Chat - Round 8 ********

ba_barabus

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Struggling to find parts for it mind

I'd imagine so. There used to be a very early phase1 near me that had rust EVERYWHERE on it. I still struggle to understand that as I thought they were galvanized. There was a few phase2 near me too which seemed to last well enough but I think parts being NLA took them all off the road.

Interslice

dgt wrote: »

4 cylinder engines supplied from Iveco/Sofim.... The 2.8 is the same engine with a different stroke (I think)

I would love to have a Croma with a 2.8 Turbo Daily engine under the bonnet :cool::cool::cool:

Edit: bored out too

I remember you saying the iveco was a 4 alright.
Be a nice rumble out of it .

Going to look a a 1.8 focus tomorrow off a friend of a friend. Told it's a good runner. It's 700 euro, only up the road and has new tyres, nct and tax. Time to get rotary pump reliability and the cheap juice on the go again unfortunately. Told the body is a bit rough, hopefully not too bad. They're an ugly enough yolk at the best of times.

dgt

ba_barabus wrote: »

I'd imagine so. There used to be a very early phase1 near me that had rust EVERYWHERE on it. I still struggle to understand that as I thought they were galvanized. There was a few phase2 near me too which seemed to last well enough but I think parts being NLA took them all off the road.

Sadly


I think the Tempra/Tipo were the 1st Fiats offered with a galvanized warranty

Duke O Smiley

This car is actually an 88 2 litre..

Speaking of galvanised Tipos there is a 94-MH one around the corner fromm school in lovely nick. No rust at all, I always used to perv on it

Stheno

Anyone remember Lancias? Think I've said it on here before, but my dad was a shopkeeper, and I as a kid entered a competition in his name to win one of those mini transits (or some such) when they first came out.

Imagine his surprise reading the post at breakfast to discovered he'd won!

Anyway, we ended up with a Lancia after he sold the van and replaced it with a Lancia, that was a deadly car, four door saloon, I was about eight at the time, so early eighties, and fairly new, was a massive upgrade for us

colm_mcm

Fella near me has a tempra turbo diesel. Car is In great shape

dgt

It did make a big difference the galvanizing. My Tempra is still solid despite lying up ages. Only rust is on the rear doors just below the quarter light, never got any worse. Seemed to be a common rust spot on a lot of them

ba_barabus

colm_mcm wrote: »

Fella near me has a tempra turbo diesel. Car is In great shape

The last one I had see in regular use was a 94 TD owned by a farmer. It put up with dogs abuse and was killed in the end when the handbrake slipped on his tractor which ended up rolling over the bonnet and into the windscreen.

Duke O Smiley

Lancia had a few saloons in the 80s, the Thema, Dedra, Prisma. I think the Prisma was a Delta with a boot

Early 80s though they had the Trevi. Google Lancia Trevi dashboard and be amazed

Stheno

Twas a Lancia that was very square that we had.

Think of a stylish Tiida

Those are my childish memories anyway

davycc

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

This car is actually an 88 2 litre..

Speaking of galvanised Tipos there is a 94-MH one around the corner from school in lovely nick. No rust at all, I always used to perv on it

any excuse to post up some of my old much loved 2.0 16v sedicivalvole phase 2 car with honestly no rust anywhere- heavy galvanised from the factory

Marcusm

When I was a kid in the early 80s, we were a 2x Fiat Ritmo household. My father had a metallic blue 75 which he bought new and my mother had a mushroom coloured 60. Needless to say it was the beautiful 75 which rusted to ****e before being written off in a rear end smash 86 or 87.

bear1

Special Circumstances wrote: »

You certainly wouldn't expect 200 bhp from one!

Yeah they aren't easy to find. They use the 2.4 diesel engine which I'm fairly sure has 200bhp or there about.

Marcusm

Marcusm wrote: »

When I was a kid in the early 80s, we were a 2x Fiat Ritmo household. My father had a metallic blue 75 which he bought new and my mother had a mushroom coloured 60. Needless to say it was the beautiful 75 which rusted to ****e before being written off in a rear end smash 86 or 87.

Can't rememember a 75, remember the 70 & the super 85 and of course the 105TC

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Special Circumstances

Heisenberg. wrote: »

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Private seller or wheeler dealer? Import I assume?

CIP4

CIP4 wrote: »

I can't post pictures or links but did anyone see on the Audi cork Facebook page the a4 2005 they had in with apparently an original engine and 660k km on the clock. That's fair going for any car I know trucks and buses do more than that but it seems so much for a car to do you rarely here of them with that mileage.

Neighbour had 580k miles on an avensis taxi. 02 IIRC.

Alanstrainor

Just got a quote of 650 for my yoke, not bad going. AIG seem to be working for me this year!

toastedpickles

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Just got a quote of 650 for my yoke, not bad going. AIG seem to be working for me this year!

Just tried them myself, 1000 fully comp for me, or 600 if i download some good driver app thing......


I think I'll pay the grand :pac:

Alanstrainor

toastedpickles wrote: »

Just tried them myself, 1000 fully comp for me, or 600 if i download some good driver app thing......


I think I'll pay the grand :pac:

CoverInAClick.ie is who I went through for that quote, they gave me a better quote than AIG directly, (although it was only 30 quid less.)

toastedpickles

Ah righty, i just went to the aig site!

GvidoR

Alanstrainor wrote: »

CoverInAClick.ie is who I went through for that quote, they gave me a better quote than AIG directly, (although it was only 30 quid less.)

I've been with coverinaclick for past 2 years. It went up from €950 to €1112.60 this year, but they just called and got me a quote of €1085. I guess that's as good as it's gonna get.

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime

toastedpickles wrote: »

Just tried them myself, 1000 fully comp for me, or 600 if i download some good driver app thing......


I think I'll pay the grand :pac:

Sure i could download that for you and doddle around in a bus all day since they are slow !

Mind you they might think you're weird driving up and down the same road all day !

toastedpickles

Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Sure i could download that for you and doddle around in a bus all day since they are slow !

Mind you they might think you're weird driving up and down the same road all day !

You could be onto something there :pac:

GvidoR

This seemed interesting for some weird reason. :P

toastedpickles

^^

GvidoR

Just saw this on Buy and Sell facebook group.

Holy sh*t... that is an insane sun strip on the Audi.

beertons

Good God.

Pov06

GvidoR wrote: »

Just saw this on Buy and Sell facebook group.

Holy sh*t... that is an insane sun strip on the Audi.

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Sun strip me arse...more like a "this is how massive a twat I am" strip!